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Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Inauguration of the Perkins Professor of Natural Science in Connexion With Revelation: Before the Board of Directors of the Theological Seminary of the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia, at Marietta, Georgia, November 22, 1861
Bible is held to teach, with a clearness that can not be mis understood, both directly and by implication, that the whole human family is descended from the single pair, Adam and Eve; the inspired Apostle's saying is quoted, God, that made the world and all things therein hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth: and this oneness is necessa rily implied in the doctrines of original sin, the federal headship of Adam, and the atonement of Christ. It is impossible to admit any doubt as to this unity, and at the same time believe in the truth of the most vital doctrines of our religion. And yet, it is most strenuously main tained by many, of no small repute in the scientific world, that numerous branches of knowledge conspire to prove this dogma false, and to demonstrate the diversity of hu man origin. The white, black, red, yellow, and brown races, with many intermediate, are held to be distinct species of animals, descended from different ancestors; closely allied to one another, it may be, but not more so than many species of the lower animals, universally ad mitted to be distinct. This is supposed to be demonstrated by the diversities in their anatomical and physiological characteristics, and by the difference in their mental con stitution; by the constancy of these diversities, as proved by pictures on the monuments of Egypt; by the determi nation of the bounds of their habitations by natural laws, just as rigidly as the bounds of the habitations of any other animals. For similar reasons, it is further main tained, not merely that the human genus has descended from many pairs of ancestors, but, also, that these were distributed geographically at the time of their introduc tion, as we now find their descendants.
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